Smash

Yeah.

I made Ned come in from the other room because we both love Ann, and we used to watch Smash.

And this is the, the first time I met Ann, I said, "I just have to let you know, my husband and I are huge fans, and every week we watch Smash and yell at the TV, 'Who puts Ann Harada in a musical and doesn't give her a song?'"

[laughs]

She said, "I ask myself that same question every week."

Oh, good.

Good, good.

Um, I, I've never seen Smash, the TV show.

I really thought writing for TV was loads of fun.

Well, and Smash must have been particularly enjoyable to you.

It was kind of meta, actually, because the series was about a theater company.

Yeah, it was actually about backstage at a Broadway musical.

Well, you know, I've met him a bunch of times and talked to him about the show.

And he was very busy shooting Lincoln while we were shooting in New York.

We were shooting Smash.

And so every now and then, they'd be like, Stephen's in the da-da-da.

This is a return to the stage, having made her mark on Broadway as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice, Blackbird, and Grey House, as well as in Lazarus at New York Theatre Workshop and the West End, The Runaways at New York City Center, The Nether at MCC Theater, and beyond.

On screen, she's made memorable turns in Netflix's The School for Good and Evil, alongside our girls, as in we've never met them but we love them, Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, as well as in One Piece, Evil, Strangers, The Sound of Music Live, Smash, which we need to talk about, and more.

Just recently, this superstar released her debut album on Ecstatic, which is streaming everywhere.

It includes stunning visuals to accompany her thrilling new sound.

It's a question that I'm, I'm gonna defer my time d- 'cause I need to ask you a question, Sophia.

Okay.

Smash is in your bio.

Yes.

long-... incredible careers.

Um- Smash was only a twinkle in Jack Davenport's eye ...

Yeah, I was gonna, yeah, I was gonna say Jack Davenport had Smash, but I mean, yes, I mostly they all, they all did quite well for themselves.

He was in the Pirates movies.

Probably "Newsies," 'cause I think that was most people's, but I didn't know about "Newsies" when it first came out.

So my introduction to him was when he was on the second season of "Smash." And at the-

Ah

... end of the season, they do the, they all sing, um, "Under Pressure," and he does that one line that, uh, Freddie Mercury does, where it's like really long and high when he's coming in the theater, and it's-- I fell in love with him as he's doing that, that note.

I'm like, "Damn, I love that man."

Okay.

I, Christian Borle is, he was in "Smash." He's the guy that, um, was the, the co-writer with Debra Messing.

[gasps] Oh, okay.